Document Type : Exploratory

Authors

1 Professor, Department of Public Administration and Tourism, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Public Management, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Governance in the concept of the method and process of governance and policy-making is considered a new concept in the literature of political science and public administration, and with multiple dimensions and coordinates, it seeks to improve the quality and efficiency of governments and provide the interests of society. The purpose of the current research is to investigate the coordinates of governance in the book Marzban Nameh and present its teachings for today's world. The research is in the framework of interpretive paradigm and qualitative study and thematic analysis strategy has been used to extract governance coordinates. The statistical population of the current research was carried out using the documents analysis approach, which from the first chapter of Marzban Nameh contains texts, parables and anecdotes narrated between Malekzadeh (Marzban) and Dastur (Minister), considering that all the texts, parables and anecdotes of the first chapter were studied. Therefore, the sampling is of the Random sampling, and the time domain of the research is the first half of 1403, and the main and secondary components of the pattern were extracted using thematic analysis method. Based on the findings of the research, the components related to governance in Marzbanname included 96 primary concepts, 44 sub-categories and 7 main categorie components. The seven components are: moral and religious, personality-individual, behavioral, structural, political, social and economic component. In total of 44 sub-components were identified for the seven main components. Based on this, the components of governance were formed in Marzbannameh and a theoretical model extracted from Marzbannameh was presented. As a result suggestions were made for the managers of public organizations

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